The Lovesong of J Alfred Prufrock: an Interlinear Poem

On my 75th birthday, March 15, 2020, the world went into Pandemic lockdown. A few months into this solitude, I came across Jeremy Irons reading T.S. Eliot’s poem. Written in 1911, Eliot’s first published poem had eerie similarities to the changed world of locked-down 2020. I entered my own interlinear, a Pandemic poem in the midst of Prufrock. Death count then was 140K. Now two years later it is over 1 million. (And where from here?) Here is Jeremy Irons’ poignant reading followed by the expanded Prufrock.